No more NNTP on Microsoft

(9-11-2010)
No more NNTP on Microsoft

"mynews" wrote in message
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(9-11-2010) No more NNTP on Microsoft

The server privatenews.microsoft.com is still available.
(For those talented people who produce some stunning efforts)

Sunny wrote:

(9-11-2010) No more NNTP on Microsoft

msnews.microsoft.com is still hosting 134 groups, down from it's last
count of about 214.

The server privatenews.microsoft.com is still available.

It requires username and password to access.

(For those talented people who produce some stunning efforts)

Not sure I understand that.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Sunny wrote:

(9-11-2010) No more NNTP on Microsoft

msnews.microsoft.com is still hosting 134 groups, down from it's last
count of about 214.

The server privatenews.microsoft.com is still available.

It requires username and password to access.

(Only in an attempt to discourage the clowns :-)


(For those talented people who produce some stunning efforts)

Not sure I understand that.

The newsgroup was created with the expressed purpose of allowing people to
share stationery without the limitations of the 100KB limit on the public
interface.

(Most of the "stationery", created using OE and WLM by the participants is
brilliant.)

98 Guy wrote:

Sunny wrote:

(9-11-2010) No more NNTP on Microsoft

msnews.microsoft.com is still hosting 134 groups, down from it's last
count of about 214.

Yes, but it won't be around for much longer.

The server privatenews.microsoft.com is still available.

It requires username and password to access.

Not so. I just logged in and read
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general with no uerid or password.

--
Tim Slattery

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

Tim Slattery wrote:

The server privatenews.microsoft.com is still available.

It requires username and password to access.

Not so. I just logged in and read
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general with no uerid or password.

Perhaps you've already entered a user-name / password into your usenet
client so you don't see the prompt for those items when you try to
access that server.

I can tell you that privatenews.microsoft.com definately does prompt for
a user-name and password before it allows you to pull down it's list of
newsgroups.

And according to this:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...s/default.mspx

Microsoft is claiming that that server does or will prompt for
username/password:

============
Note: To view these newsgroups with Outlook Express or another NNTP
newsreader, you might be required to log on using the following
information:

• Server: privatenews.microsoft.com
• Account name: privatenews\spyware
• Password: spyware (case-sensitive)
============

And it's also talked about he

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-mail/1...osoft-com.html

===============
My MS partner ID and password won't get me access to the
privatenews.microsoft.com
NNTP server. Where or how can I obtain credentials to access these
groups?

You might have to go back to your MS online support technician for
details
on this one. ID's and Passwords for the private newsgroups are supplied
by
Microsoft.
===============


This document contains the following instructions:

=================
On the Internet News Server Name Page, enter "privatenews.microsoft.com"
and check the box "My news server requires me to log on". Click 'Next'.

For account name, enter "privatenews\crm3earlyaccess". Then enter your
password which is "earlyaccess". Click 'Next'.

Then click 'Finish'.

Select 'Close' and begin downloading your newsgroups
==================


So there is ample evidence that privatenews.microsoft.com requires a
username and password for access.

Sunny wrote:

(For those talented people who produce some stunning efforts)

Not sure I understand that.

The newsgroup

What newsgroup?

was created with the expressed purpose of allowing people to
share stationery without the limitations of the 100KB limit
on the public interface.

(Most of the "stationery", created using OE and WLM by the
participants is brilliant.)

Maybe there's a post or two of this thread that's missing on the aioe
server, because it's not clear to me how or where this discussion
included references to a newsgroup pertaining to OE and WLM stationary.

What is WLM anyways?

98 Guy wrote:


I can tell you that privatenews.microsoft.com definately does prompt for
a user-name and password before it allows you to pull down it's list of
newsgroups.

Ugh, I didn't look closely enough at your post. The private server
does require login, always has.

--
Tim Slattery

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Sunny wrote:

(For those talented people who produce some stunning efforts)

Not sure I understand that.

The newsgroup

What newsgroup?

microsoft.private.stationery

"The user name and password for this newsgroup is freely shareable, so
feel
free to let anyone know about the address and user/pass combination
required
to access these groups:

Server: privatenews.microsoft.com
User: privatenews\stationery
Pass: stationery

John Eddy
Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator


Maybe there's a post or two of this thread that's missing on the aioe
server, because it's not clear to me how or where this discussion
included references to a newsgroup pertaining to OE and WLM stationary.

What is WLM anyways?

Windows Live Mail (Replacement for Outlook Express)